Dance of Death in Basel | Memento Mori Playing Cards

Memento Mori Inspired by the mediaeval black death, a plague that swept through 14th century Europe. Hand coloured lithographic plates by Hieronymus Hess inspired by the woodcuts of Hans Holbein and after Matthew Merian's 17th century drawings of the fresco-paintings on the cemetery wall of St. Johns church at Basel. A must-have for lovers of vintage horror, gothic and spooky skeletons. Dance of Death - Danse Macabre An artistic genre of late-mediaeval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or personified Death summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave. ex libris mortis